Colonel Harland Sanders, born September 9, 1890, actively began franchising his
chicken business at the age of 65. Now, the Kentucky Fried Chicken® business
he started has grown to be one of the largest retail food service systems in the
world. And Colonel Sanders, a quick service restaurant pioneer, has become a symbol
of entrepreneurial spirit.

More than two billion of the Colonel's "finger lickin' good" chicken
dinners are served annually. And not just in North America. The Colonel's cooking
is available in more than 82 countries around the world.

When the Colonel was six, his father died. His mother was forced to go to work,
and young Harland had to take care of his three-year-old brother and baby sister.
This meant doing much of the family cooking. By the age of seven, he was a master
of a score of regional dishes.

At age 10, he got his first job working on a nearby farm for $2 a month. When
he was 12, his mother remarried and he left his home near Henryville, Ind., for
a job on a farm in Greenwood, Ind. He held a series of jobs over the next few
years, first as a 15-year-old streetcar conductor in New Albany, Ind., and then
as a 16-year-old private, soldiering for six months in Cuba.

After that he was a railroad fireman, studied law by correspondence, practiced
in justice of the peace courts, sold insurance, operated an Ohio River steamboat
ferry, sold tires, and operated service stations. When he was 40, the Colonel
began cooking for hungry travelers who stopped at his service station in Corbin,
Ky. He didn't have a restaurant then, but served folks on his own dining table
in the living quarters of his service station.

As more people started coming just for food, he moved across the street to a motel
and restaurant that seated 142 people. Over the next nine years, he perfected
his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices and the basic cooking technique that is
still used today.

As we grew...

Sander's fame grew. Governor Ruby Laffoon made him a Kentucky Colonel in 1935
in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine. And in 1939, his establishment
was first listed in Duncan Hines' "Adventures in Good Eating."

In the early 1950s a new interstate highway was planned to bypass the town of
Corbin. Seeing an end to his business, the Colonel auctioned off his operations.
After paying his bills, he was reduced to living on his $105 Social Security checks.

Confident of the quality of his fried chicken, the Colonel devoted himself to
the chicken franchising business that he started in 1952. He traveled across the
country by car from restaurant to restaurant, cooking batches of chicken for restaurant
owners and their employees. If the reaction was favorable, he entered into a handshake
agreement on a deal that stipulated a payment to him of a nickel for each chicken
the restaurant sold. By 1964, Colonel Sanders had more than 600 franchised outlets
for his chicken in the United States and Canada. That year, he sold his interest
in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors including John Y. Brown
Jr., who later was governor of Kentucky from 1980 to 1984. The Colonel remained
a public spokesman for the company. In 1976, an independent survey ranked the
Colonel as the world's second most recognizable celebrity.

Under the new owners, Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation grew rapidly. It went
public on March 17, 1966, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January
16, 1969. More than 3,500 franchised and company-owned restaurants were in worldwide
operation when Heublein Inc. acquired KFC Corporation on July 8, 1971, for $285
million.

Kentucky Fried Chicken became a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. (now
RJR Nabisco, Inc.), when Heublein Inc. was acquired by Reynolds in 1982. KFC was
acquired in October 1986 from RJR Nabisco, Inc. by PepsiCo, Inc., for approximately
$840 million.

In January 1997, PepsiCo, Inc. announced the spin-off of its quick service restaurants
-- KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut -- into an independent restaurant company. TRICON
Global Restaurants, Inc., is the world's largest restaurant system with nearly
30,000 KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in more than 100 countries and
territories.

Until he was fatally stricken with leukemia in 1980 at the age of 90, the Colonel
traveled 250,000 miles a year visiting the KFC empire he founded.

And it all began with a 65-year-old gentleman who used his $105 Social Security
check to start a business.

KFC and Pizza Hut of Fort Wayne, Inc.

Dick Freeland has been president of Pizza Hut of Fort Wayne since 1971 and
his wife Deanna has been its secretary/treasurer. Although the company opened
its 44th hut in 2001, the Freelands clearly remember the circumstances that led
Dick Freeland to take his first Pizza Hut job in their hometown of Des Moines,
Iowa.

The Freelands were married young and had children right away. Dick Freeland was
an ironworker. Deanna Freeland was an executive secretary. In 1967, they got away
for a long overdue vacation-an auto trip to Canada and the East Coast. Short on
cash, they charged all of their gasoline.

When they returned home, Dick, an ironworker for nine years, took a part-time
job at a Pizza Hut to pay off the gas charges.

One thing led to another, and Dick Freeland became a store manager, area manager
of nine huts, and eventually an owner in an Iowa franchise. When Pizza Hut went
public on the New York Stock Exchange, he was offered a job as a district manager.
He turned it down.

"I knew I'd be tied to a desk if I took that job. I'm more operations-oriented."
He explained.

So he got out a map and searched the eastern half of the United States for available
territories. Most had been gobbled up with the terrific success of Pizza Hut.
Mysteriously, the Fort Wayne area franchise was available. He and Deanna grabbed
it.

In 1972, they moved to Fort Wayne and rented an apartment at Canterbury Green.
They borrowed money to start the first hut on East State near Coliseum Boulevard.
The landlord, however, didn't know the Freelands and their penchant for hard work.
He insisted they produce a co-signer on their lease.

Frank Carney, one of Pizza Hut's founders and his wife stepped forward and personally
guaranteed the lease. " Their signatures are still on that lease," said
Deanna Freeland, some 30 years and 44 Pizza Huts later. "I know their personal
financial statement is still attached."

Carney, they recalled, told the Freelands, "After all you've done for Pizza
Hut, I'd be proud to do this for you. You haven't left the company-you've just
transferred."

Dick Freeland managed that first hut. Their children bussed tables and helped
make pizzas. Deanna Freeland waited tables and kept the books, dedicating a closet
in their apartment for Pizza Hut records. Once, their then 12-year old daughter
helped her father open the store, worked all day and evening and then helped close.
Freeland found her asleep underneath a table. "I absolutely cried,"
he recalled. "Here I was working this child to exhaustion."

By 2002, the Freelands own 44 restaurants; several of them are the top ones in
the nation. Also, Freeland has diversified in becoming a KFC franchise and has
developed 3 KFC restaurants since 1999 with plans to develop additional KFC restaurants.